Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-01-03
New YOrk's Wight TOiIers.
WORKERS AND RoYsTERERs WHO IGNORE
THE NATURAL ORDER OF IHINGS-
BRAwNY Sons OF THE Toll AND Roll
licking MIDNIGHT SMELLS.

Every body thinks he knows what classes
OF people the al!-night population of big
city is composed of and he Immediately
runs through the category to show his
knowledge. OF course he mentions the
baker. the printer, the marketman and the
policeman. There are fully 200, 900 peo-
pie in New York every night who are as
wide awake and busy at midnight as the
great bulk OF the population is at noon
They are not always the same people, but
when one drops out another falls in to fill
the gap.
Nothing better exemplities the gregar
ious nature of man than the scenes pre-
scented late at night by the human owls.
Unlike their big eyed and teathered ex
emplar, they 90 in tlocks After night
fall people are more companonabe. Just
AS society INDUCES in its creates, display
at night. so do the night workers revel in
their chosen section OF the daily division
Of time The average night prowler has
IA supreme contempt for what is known as
society. He believes all the display made
at balls and parties is hypocritical. The
night man is looked upon with pity by the
day man. and the night man regards the
dav man with contempt. whenever the
latter remains too long under the light of
gas and stars.
This is noticeable even among that
class of night workers who have sprung
up in the last few years, wherever large
manufacturing industri n are carried on.
In the foundries, wherShe red and blue
and white glare of the furnaces dispel
darkness, and where waist stripped men
SWING great hammers and pound molten
iron and steel into the engine OF machinery
the night men are jolier and more
generous than the squad who do the same
thing during the dav. The flying pieces
of heat-reddened iron fail like rain drops.
and the bare breasted men with faces be-
grmmed with dirt and smoke look satanic
in their development OF flame. The girls
and women who work in the factories all
night are proverballv better and more
sociable than their sisters who hurry home
at dusk to dress for the street or theatre.
The men who work al night belong to the
same unions that the day iaborers do. but
strikes are conceived by the day men. are
conducted by the day men, and the night
worker is the first to vote for compromise
and return 10 duty. The reason for this
| is simple. He is in an entirely new
element when compelled to sleep at night.
rs he must do during strikes. because he
has to be around with the controllers OF
the movement in the dav or early even
| ing
Take the market man. with his sleepy
| horse trudging for market AT clock in
the morning. At this time he walks grim
and unsociable Around his stall how
ever. he is busting, bright faced and
pleasant. He gives his earliest customers
/ the best. and throws in an ex IA for the
good luck he hopes for the day to bring.
! 1t is true that the men who turn night
| into dav are more reckless and extrava-
giant than their more conforming brothers.
Blu, their good fellowship is repaid in
thousand ways. They know more of men.
because hypocrtes lose some of their char
acteristics when not surrounded by the
glare of daylight. People who meet at
night become more intimate. soul reveals
itself to soul with less hesitancy. and. pc
culiarities which the sunlight never lays
bare, stand out prominent in the shadows
of night.
Then there is the all.night restaurant,
where corned beef and beans flourish like
the green bay tree and where hash is q joy